i do like the small japanese eggplants tho
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
I like eggplant but it has to be cooked correctly, which isn't as intuitive as it should be, so maybe I hate eggplant.
― your native bacon (mh), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
eggplant is def a harsh mistress
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
when not done well its gross, but it can be so sublime
i went to the fall apple-themed menu at cabane à sucre au pied de cochon last week and one of the dishes was this aubergine pancake... impossible to describe but fuckin cuhrazypants
WHat of the seeds, the seeds? are they not an offense to the mouth?
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
i think i have never noticed aubergine seeds
― very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://siteware.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/eggplant-seed-harvest.jpg
BEHOLD!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
ha ha. are you sitting at your keyboard running knives over unwanted aubergines getting mad about subpar vegetables? no i mean i'm aware they exist, but like i have never texturally tasted them or felt them interfere with the eating of an aubergine. they just seem fine.
― very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
It seesm to me thy tongue is not as sharp and precise as this steel blade or you too would quiver in horror at the granulations!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
lol
i am quiverin
i just think you need to grill one of these guys, throw it in a sandwich or eat it on toast with mustard, let the good times roll
― very sexual album (schlump), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
The only thing that is rolling is my eyes and my bowels!
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Wednesday, 5 September 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
I bought some of those marinated, grilled eggplant slices you can get at any deli (in this case La Maison des Pâtes Fraîches). I made a basic tomato sauce then threw the eggplant slices in the food processor. Dumped them into the sauce. It was the richest, tastiest pasta sauce I've made in a long time.
I've been trying to replicate this at home by roasting eggplants in the oven. I can't seem to do it. I can't seem to do much of anything with eggplant at the moment.
― fields of salmon, Thursday, 6 September 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
if you have a grill, you can grill them until they totally collapse (err on the side of overcooking), then let them cool a bit, peel them and get rid of the juice that leaks out, then chop em up like crazy or blend them, add lemon juice salt pepper tahini, and you got yourself a baba ghanouj.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 September 2012 12:11 (eleven years ago) link
I guess we should make a newthread "HELLISH EGGPLANTS COME ALIVE"
― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 13:29 (eleven years ago) link
you know just to justify derailing the mtl thread into aubergine territory, i cooked w/a few of the little (japanese? i think they're canadian but i think i've heard the lil baby aubergines called japanese before (maybe itt)) aubs yesterday, grilling them, & they were kind of a little bitter. just putting it out there that, factoring in regional supply variety, ymmv.
would def grill instead of roast, if i were you, fields of salmon; roasted aubergines are amazing to make into sauces but more as a weird smulchy disappearing ingredient than as a solid eggplant component. i slice; salt; sweat for awhile; brush w/olive oil & some spices (smoked paprika/sumac/i haven't found smoked paprika in montreal yet/what is up w that); & then grill for ten minutes, turn over & grill for ten more. getting tahini involved sounds like a real good idea too.
― very sexual album (schlump), Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
Making eggplant for lunch!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
"Montreal, where Eggplants are Revered"
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/466970
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:15 (eleven years ago) link
Janice Lawandi, Montreal Cooking Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/article/mini-eggplants-are-perfect-for-stuffing
she can go stuff her eggplants
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man, I want to go back to Montreal. I really loved it.
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
quite a resume M'lady
http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/janice-lawandi-phd/7/711/471
Lawandi awaits you E-to -the-NBB
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
I am considering sending Latham Green in my stead
― your naïve bacon (mh), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
i hope the forecast rain this weekend doesn't happen. there's a lot of good outdoor stuff i want to do (that wld suck in the rain)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
uhxp
tho i do like his not-necessarily-Montreal contributions to this thread
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
One activity I can think of that would suck in the rain it trying to build a house of playing cards. Or trying to draw faces on coffee filters with a que-tip and some sort of ochre - tehy would be ruined! mon deiu!
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
tabarnouche! now i really hope it doesn't rain
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Ta Bouche est tabarnouche!
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I could plan a trip myself, someday, instead of sending Mr. Green
― your naïve bacon (mh), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
You have no need for worry - I do not travel. Ever.
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
Montreal all is probably not that far from you!
― (✿◠‿◠) (ENBB), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
err no "all"
Montreal-all is what we call the city as a whole
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
it's like "galactica actual" on BSG
s1ocki recommend to me brunch places near mile end
― Lamp, Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
other people can recommend places too but i want that gourmand seal of approval
Boston -all includes Newton I guess and Peabody - seems like some sort of linux command with a dash liek that
ipconfig -all
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's ifconfig on linux
― your naïve bacon (mh), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:44 (eleven years ago) link
really? shit I suck at linux! The Official Distro of Montreal is Eggplantware
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
lol galactica montreal actual
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:45 (eleven years ago) link
???http://www.worldsfairphotos.com/expo67/battlestar-galactica.htm
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:46 (eleven years ago) link
"Actors Dirk Benedict (as fighter pilot Starbuck) and Bobby Van (as Hector, the android), traveled to Montreal for these scenes. Benedict has been quoted as saying it was an uncomfortable experience - not all that surprising in that the scenes were shot in winter in buildings that had not been heated in years."
plus he was with an Eggplant man
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah perhaps in order to post itt, one has to at least have an intention of visiting Montreal in the near future, give or take a year. we will soon grow tired of yr wistfulness for what we got. we all know that all this eggplant talk is but a thin veneer.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:51 (eleven years ago) link
Did anyone ever see that Altman movie shot in some place related to Expo 67 -- maybe Habitat, maybe something else... was it called Quintet? That looked COLD
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Is that why6 the baseball team was called the expos? Tim Raines> ( NOt Gaines)
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.notinhalloffame.com/UserFiles/Image/article_images/Baseball/Tim%20Raines.jpg
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
i had to watch Quintet in an undergrad film class for a section about auteursit's a pretty boring movie! or at least it was to 20-yr-old me
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
You are wiser now - and taking it all in - the sights, the sounds...you still remember your earlier trembling moments. Now you are the Regis. Meanwhile, I am still the fool, fallin gover in tide pools
― Brony 4 Life (Latham Green), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
yep, expos named after the 67 expo. i don't think i finished watched quintet afaik. pretty cool buildings tho.
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
man i was jsut thinknig about mile end brunches and realized i probably havent had a nice civil mile end sunday brunch in like a year, only st-henri janko brunches at greenspot etc.
i think senzala closed? i kinda remember sparrow's brunch being good. does lawrence or lemeac or one of those places that start with an L have a brunch?
― #1 Thwartstop Prospect (Will M.), Thursday, 6 September 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
i'm so shitty @ being from this city